Well, this is ironic.
I had the good intent of getting this post up about five hours ago, but you know what? I had a mess of random things come up in my schedule and I’ve literally spent most of my day away from my computer.
If, by some chance, I would have actually LISTENED to my friend Tony’s wisdom in his book Killing Cockroaches, I might have been able to plan, delegate, say no, redirect, and focus a little better.
Lesson learned.
Again.
So, before we get to the book giveaway stuff, you have to know Tony’s going on tour. I don’t know if he’ll be giving out hugs, if he’ll have pyrotechnics, or even a 300 pound body guard with zero body fat escorting him to and from his Prevost, but regardless, if he’s in your area, you have to have to be a part of the tour. And it’s cheaper than taking your team out to lunch. If you took them to the Melting Pot and not McDonalds, I mean.? Details are here.
Tony has been generous enough to donate ten copies of Killing Cockroaches to the Anne Jackson Book Giveaway fund. To be entered, leave a comment having to do with anything roach related – literal or metaphorical – and be entered. I’ll pick winners from both this giveaway and the Mad Church Disease giveaway next Thursday and the winner shall be notified via electronic post. (That’s email). Use the TWEET THIS button below to earn double credit.
Ready? Go.
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86 responses to “BOOK GIVEAWAY – Killing Cockroaches”
I once preached a sermon from John 3:19-21 entitled “Cockroaches or Moths.”
Use Raid, it kills roaches dead in their tracks!!! :)
I consider myself an amateur pest control guru based on my self observed ability to eradicate my house of roaches. Also, my pastor has actually hugged Tony Morgan. No lie. It was live on the internet.
When we lived in Hawaii, cockroaches came with the apartment. If I’d could have found a way to charge them rent, we could have made some money each month.
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I have nothing witty to say about cockroaches. But I love books.
Talked with my wife earlier, she saw one running across our neighbors side yard…took five stomps to take care of him!
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Used to live in NY, I know a little about killing cockroaches….
Cockroaches have really buggy eyes. Kinda like my last pastor.
So if a cockroach can live for up to one week without its head…
will this book teach me how to do the same?
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I found a couple roaches in a drawer at work last week. I asked who they belonged to but no one copped to ’em.
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Pregnant for life? It doesn’t sound like much fun, but some female cockroaches mate once and are pregnant for the rest of their lives.
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We have roaches in our microwave. They got caught and died in the clock afrea and ther is no way to get them out short of throwing away the microwave.
My wife had cockroaches in her room while visiting Guatemala!
I didn’t know roaches could fly until I moved from Amish Country, PA to Montgomery, AL. The first time a two-inch roach flew over my shoulder and landed next to me, I almost peed myself.
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Once when I was in college, I saw a roach in my sink in my apartment. My husband (boyfriend at the time) beat the crap out of it. I went to get something to scoop it up and when I came back it was gone. I never went barefoot in that apartment again. But, I never did see it again so hopefully it went off and died somewhere.
Killed my grass the other day thinking I was using bug spray.
Nothing like a brown yard for summer.
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When my brother moved into his apartment at college, he had roaches and all other kinds of bugs EVERYWHERE…..he even had a dishwasher full of water, roaches other crawly things and no way to fix the thing…..took six months for maintenance to come do pest control and fix his dishwasher.
Cockroaches – always hiding in the shadows waiting to scurry out…. I don’t like anything that scurries. But I do love books – they don’t scurry.
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I don’t think I have ever seen a cockroach.
I lived in Panama City, Florida for a few years in my childhood. The cockroaches down there are the size of a small dog.
Disgusting!
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They’re featured in the Men in Black movies :P
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Ok.. Roaches.. Not my favorite bug.. But totally prefer them instead of the few black widow spiders I’ve seen this year.. One thing.. Keep the raid & roach traps ready.. Invasion is on its way! Lol..
I despise them…Florida has tons!
One of my teammates in high school put on her swimsuit…and a cockroach crawled out of it! She threw her suit across the locker room so quickly. I checked my suits before putting them…and still do!
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i arrived in seattle this past sunday evening… just before midnight, but had traveled from the east coast – through houston, tx – and that was after traveling through the night from nashville to west palm beach the night before. i was tired, very tired, when i got to my hotel room that night. as i turned the light on i saw a little cockroach scurry up the wall behind my bed… for a moment i considered a trip back down to the front desk… but as tired as i was i instead told myself that i was on a mission trip to a third world country and that was to be expected… and that it wouldn’t eat me like that giant cockroach on men-in-black. then i went to bed… and made it through the night! :)
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I stopped being bothered by roaches when I started to clean-up after myself, or was it when I got married to my wonderful wife and she started to clean-up after me? Probably the later since I can be pretty lazy at times.
I had never heard of Tony Morgan, but he followed me on Twitter. When I clicked over to his Twitter page, I almost automatically closed out because of those awful cockroaches! Thankfully, I read about him and realized I DID want to follow him and learn more. :)
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EVERYONE…..
La cucarachA, la cucarachA,
ya no puede caminar
porque no tiene, porque le faltan
las dos patitas de atr?s.
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I was sitting in a well known coffee shop today, meeting with one my staff team members, when a cockroach crawled up the wall beside me. I killed it with my tall chai tea latte…that’s some strong tea!
I’m scared of roaches…I completely freak out and run away if I see one.
i moved from missouri to florida this year & moved into a condo that had been sitting empty for 2 years.
two words:
PALMETTO BUGS.
(otherwise known as ginormous flying cockroaches)
enough said. ;)
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I don’t know much about cockroaches, but I know I don’t like them and I know the topic of this book is mad interesting. Pick ME!
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When I was younger I was moving in to a townhouse that hadn’t been lived in for months. My roommate and I were unpacking and once the sun went down and the lights were on all over the house these huge cockroaches started flying all around. No joke, we killed (o.k. she killed) atleast 20 of those huge creepy creepers that night. We told the realtor about it the next day and had to get a little bit pushy for them to agree to have the place exterminated, that was in Tempe, AZ by the way.
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Right after getting married, my wife and I lived in married student housing at MTSU. I got up in the night and cut on the light in the kitchen. Cockroaches were everywhere running from the light! The office got a complaint call from me the next morning.
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I just saw a roach crawl across by the front door a minute ago… does that count?
Cockroaches are one of the few things I run from… They are so crunchy.
While on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic, a cockroach invited himself into my bed. Not a pleasant bedfellow, really.
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Saw one crawling across the styrofoam takeout containers at the chinese buffet… ick
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I work at a distinguished local university (I won’t mention which one) and I killed a roach on my desk last week. Totally gross.
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Cockroaches are the type of insect that I really detest, for the particular reason that they have a liking to eat book which gets on my nerves. So a book that speaks of killing roaches whether literally or metaphorically is a needed welcome! I wonder what connection does the book metaphorically portray on killing roaches though, would be a great read.
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Hmmm. . . it might be good for me to read this. My part-time ministry job is filling all the empty spaces of my life!
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I helped my 11 year daughter with a school “bug collection project” last week. The project was very demanding as she needed to collect, research, display and report on 15 different insects, with at least 8 different orders. I thought it would be easy to find a cockroach in Austin, Texas, but after two weeks of collecting…no cockroaches. It was a great time for a father/daughter bonding in the yard and woods behind our home. She impressed the teacher with her collection and received a 105 grade, with extra credit. And wouldn’t you guess, two days after she turned the project in, we found two cockroaches….so we didn’t have to kill any cockroaches. Maybe it was a lesson to work on the important things in life, like spending time with my daughter and not killing cockroaches (wasting time on urgent, not important tasks.) God bless.
I bet a cockroach doesn’t smell very good.
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mmm … a few running around the inside of my illuminated stovetop timer was enough to give me the creeps …
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I spent the better part of today working on recording & production setups for our audio visual department at the church – which drastically took away from the time I was supposed to be writing a sermon… for this weekend!
I could definitely use some encouragement to stop stomping on cockroaches.
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My senior year of college I went on a summer missions project to Virginia. I moved into my room in the Cherry Motel where I would be staying for the next three months with three other students. The room was great until our neighbors had their apartment fumigated. Suddenly we got some additional roommates?of the 6 legged variety. So began the tug of war between the rooms with our fumigation appointments. Eventually we gave up and started naming our 6-legged roommates?Charlie, Sam, Susan, Lisa, Clyde…
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Any book that encourages the existence of fewer cockroaches in this world is a book I’ve GOT to have! :)
I HATE cockroaches! Is that comment enough? :-)
cockroaches are gross….i still have nightmares!!!
Okay, so I did the National Tour of the Will Rogers Follies for about a year and in one scene we are all dressed in these red, white, and blue symmetrical costumes, complete with either a donkey or an elephant on the back which is revealed when we spin around on the stairs.
Stairs, because the whole show is done on stairs.
Anyway.
We were prepping for our scene, sitting in haphazardly fashion and scattered across the stairs BEHIND A GIANT RED CURTAIN. We still had a few minutes before the curtain lifted, so there was no need to be in place quite yet.
Um, except that the GIANT RED CURTAIN lifted right then.
Way. To. Soon.
And when it did, bright lights revealed us to the audience in all our disorderly glory. In that moment, we only did what we could: we scattered like so many roaches when an unexpected light discovers their hiding place.
Albeit patriotic cockroaches, but roaches nonetheless.
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a roach once tried to kill me.
Oh don’t remind me, I just spent $20 on stuff to kill the crazy new crop of roaches in my house! Would love the book :)
When I was a kid, I had those PJ’s with the feet. One night when I was putting them on, a roach was in one of the legs. I didn’t sleep for days.
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When we were vacationing in Texas a few years ago, my wife landed a “tasty” cockroach in her take-out Chinese food. Needless to say, she quickly lost her appetite.
Seriously, I’d love this book. I’m sure it would add to my ‘leadership’ arsenal.
Hated them when we lived in Florida—they are huge. But as long as we spraying outside around the base of the house and then inside along the baseboards every month, we never had a problem. We had to “bomb” the house a couple of times before moving in. Gross, just gross.
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I hate cockroaches with all of my heart. But I love books with all of my heart. Pick me!
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My wife was born and raised in Ethiopia and is okay with anything…except cockroaches.
On our honeymoon in Hawaii, we stayed in a bamboo yurt on the beach. While she was out brushing her teeth, I spotted the beastly bug in the corner. I literally chased it for 4 minutes, trying to stomp it before she came back in. It got away.
I never told her!
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My 2nd missions trip was to Jamica. I was one of 4 adult leaders who went down a few days ahead of the 50 plus students/leaders to ready the place we’d be staying at (a reform school for girls who had done REALLY bad things – like kill people). A few days before us, 2 guys went down to ready the place for the 4 of us. After we finally arrived at our location we were given a quick tour of the place and then dropped off at the dorm we’d be staying in. Just before walking in, one of the guys (who I knew fairly well), grabs my arm and says, “Hey, if you need to stay with me tonight, I’ll understand.”
I barely had time to react (ie smack him in the face) when the other girl I was with came RUNNING out of the dorm, screaming and literally knocking us over. I looked at her, back to the guy and slowly and cautiously walked into our dorm.
To say that the walls were covered in roaches would be understatement. They were EVERYWHERE. Walls, floors, beds – every available surface had them.
Needless to say, we did not stay in that dorm that night (or the next for that matter). And after days of killing, spraying, etc., we still all slept, all 33 of us, with the lights on and our shoes on.
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never really had any problems with them. saw a couple in a house the wife and I rented when first married. she totally freaked.
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roaches are a tasty treat – the book looks like a good read.
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Cockroaches are creepy and the cover of this book has likely kept my wife from buying it for me.
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I can’t stand cockroaches. They scare the pants off of me and I think they are SO nasty!
We were on vacation once and I was brushing my teeth and saw little antennas come up out of tooth brush holder. I looked down and lo and behold there was a huge roach INSIDE THE TOOTHBRUSH HOLDER. Hubby got huge husband points that morning!
Book looks great!
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Anne,
I remember my wife and I being on a long weekend vacation at Myrtle Beach. We were listening and doing Karaoke on the outside of the resort late at night. I was sitting there listening to some of the “talent” and remember looking down on the cement below our feet and seeing many cockroaches. I told my wife to look, and the funniest thing is, usually she is kind of whacked out about things like that, but she was enjoying the so called “talent” that it did not even phase her. That night, when we returned to our room, I remember late in the evening when she was asleep, tickling her nose, and waking her up just enough to the point where she heard me say, look at the cockroaches on the bed. She about jumped out of her skin. It was funny at the time, and we both had a good laugh about it.
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If you don’t deal with cockroaches they only get bigger and multiply. Go STEP on that roach right now.
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A couple months ago I had to pull a cockroach out of a guy’s ear that came into the clinic. He said that he had it in there for a month.
I can only think of one witty antedote concerning roaches:
When I was younger I wanted one of those hissing cockroaches from Madagascar -My mother said no. My grandfather supplied me with Junebugs on a string for the entire summer … so it worked out.
I think I am glad, because that might have started a weird obsession.
That and I still think of my Papaw whenever I see Junebugs …
Weird & Sentimental at the same time!!
One time I had a roach in my ashtray and a cop pulled me over and – wait thats not what you meant! Shoot. I dont have a an interesting cockroach story. I could sing la cucaracha but that that might disqualify me – here’s a link to a traditional band performance though
A roach a little white chocolate and a garnish of apricot. MMMMMMMMMMMM……… doughnuts!!
Found out that roach motels don’t work to kill em, just allows more ‘room’ for others to move in. Raid is great though. And at my current location its a good time to buy some stock in Raid.
You’ve seen one roach, you’ve seen them all. ~OR~
Life isn’t about the destination, but the appROACH (sorry bad pun).
Cockroaches, the little buggers come out in the night, but flee at the light.
I love how you give something away and a ton of people comment.
Why can’t there only be 10 commentors so I have a chance at winning?
I need this book because Tony is coming to speak at our church in July and I need to read it before he comes.
Here is my cockroach story, well I don’t really have one.
But I watch exterminator on A&E and have seen a lot of nasty cockroaches on the show, enough to the point of being pretty grossed out.
Actually, one time I helped a lady move and in the back room where she stayed there was enough hardee’s cup that filled the floor, to the point of where you had a little path to walk through the room. It was rather strange, but worst part was there was all kinds of bugs surrounding the cups, dead and alive. Needless to say we hurried through moving her couch and TV out of that room.
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I once put on my tennis shoe only to feel something freaky between my big and second toes. I hurriedly removed the shoe, and there between my toes was… you guessed it… a huge cockroach!
Killing Cockroaches is more than a book title. It’s a way of life.
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I lived in the Dominican Republic during the late 80’s and have never, ever seen such huge cockroaches as the ones that live there. Killing cockroaches took vicious, high-powered foot stomping.
Once we killed a huge rat running through that same house with an oar.
I saw Tony Morgan at a NewSpring conference and was surprised. I was expecting someone more….”roachy”. He’s actually pretty cool and quite human.
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Last night, while sitting in class, I had a roach climb the wall next to me.
Quite a scary experience :)
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Years ago I was on an airplane flying to a foreign country. When it came time to eat, the flight attendant set my food on my tray. The utensils came wrapped in a tubed cardboard container. When I went to remove them, out ran a cockroach across my tray. I screamed and the woman next to me laughed, reached over and squished the cockroach. The food didn’t look all that appealing after that.
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I have a buddy who thought he had a friendly roach in his college apartment. He and his roommates would see it periodically and joke about it. They didn’t care. They were guys. One roach isn’t all that bad.
They even named him. Something like Fred.
At the end of the year, they moved their mini fridge and about 40 roaches scurried out to find new darkness.
So yeah, Fred was really more than just Fred.
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Living in Vegas, the best way to kill and trap cockroaches is to put some coffee grounds in the bottom of a jar, add a little water, and they will literally crawl up walls and fall into the jar. Unbelievably disgusting, but it works!
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I am an exterminator and I would love to have this book so I can take it to work and read it in front of my boss to make it look like I’m really studying hard and want to be the best at my job.m Tee hee!!!
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Cockroaches are like Satan; a little light from God and they try to run and hide!
one of the most disgusting experiences i’ve ever had was working in a deli in new york–opening early the day after the exterminator came–SWEEPING thousands of roaches away before the first customer came in–good times–haven’t thought of that one in YEARS!!!
I’m a recruiter in Charleston, SC and candidates actually ask me “so…I hear you have big roaches down there..is it true?” I don’t believe in lying about it, so I say “Yep, and we also have big cans of Raid and great exterminators! Come anyway, we’ll lament them at the beach with a mojito.”
When I think of cockroaches, I think of the show about the exterminators and how they go around and have so much fun getting rid of pests.
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I still store my drinking glasses upside down in the cupboard – even though I now live in Canada and we don’t have cockroaches in our house! After living in southern California where we had a regular pest control plan, I learned to store everything upside down or with the lid on.
I haven’t read the book… but I can imagine. If I really viewed everything that doesn’t not pertain to my calling and purpose as if it was a cockroach… I think I’d get a lot more done. (And I likely wouldn’t be leaving a comment on blogs in the middle of the day – even though this seems to be a very good one to leave comments one!)
My Roach story is about…. A company i worked for in 2005 was upgrading audio speakers and amplifiers at Disney land Ca. while working behind the scenes and in the attic spaces of your favorite rides, I’ve seen the hugest Dinosaur/Alien in Nature Cockroaches. The attics have light switches at every hatch opening, and whenever we would first hit the light switch you would see these huge 3 to 4 inch cockroaches run full speed into there hiding places. You could even hear them run that how big these things were. I’m sure they have plenty of food, water and nesting ground to grow in that size, i swear… no lie, they were gigantic. I remember they would peek at us like Vampires that were afraid to be exposed to the light with their legs that reminded me of uncooked spaghetti noodles in color. Ewwwww!!!! Sometimes we would walk in the attics with are head lamps off, sit for a minute, and then click our lights back on, and we would be surrounded by them as if they were gonna feast on us. True story…..this was in Fantasy land.